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Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry
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David Shankbone
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Mon Nov 9
7 pm,
Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry at BookPeople
Augusten Burroughs made his literary name with a pair of painful, sometimes funny memoirs recounting his bizarre and abusive youth (Running With Scissors) and subsequent battle with substances (Dry). His 2006 essay collection, Possible Side Effects, also leaned toward the funny and quirky, while pushing him in new stylistic directions. A sharp wit and fearless storyteller, Burroughs appears here behind You Better Not Cry: Stories For Christmas, a collection of yuletide tales, which is much lighter fare than last year's demon-exorcising A Wolf At The Table—not that a book where Burroughs gnaws on decorations and recalls a holiday spent with a dying boyfriend will bump How The Grinch Stole Christmas! from many shelves.
BookPeople 603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX
Augusten Burroughs made his literary name with a pair of painful, sometimes funny memoirs recounting his bizarre and abusive youth (Running With Scissors) and subsequent battle with substances (Dry). His 2006 essay collection, Possible Side Effects, also leaned toward the funny and quirky, while pushing him in new stylistic directions. A sharp wit and fearless storyteller, Burroughs appears here behind You Better Not Cry: Stories For Christmas, a collection of yuletide tales, which is much lighter fare than last year's demon-exorcising A Wolf At The Table—not that a book where Burroughs gnaws on decorations and recalls a holiday spent with a dying boyfriend will bump How The Grinch Stole Christmas! from many shelves.
Updated 11/17/2009
